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Spring is slowly but surely coming to the Thunder Bay Area!!! The land roller will be available to the Thunder Bay Soil and Crop Improvement Association members again for 2014. The rate will be $200 per day. If you would like to use the land roller, please contact us through the form on this site. We will be in contact within 24 hours to make sure that we can do as many acres as required in our region. If you are not a current member, 2014 membership will be added to your bill. Happy Growing!

While the first official day of spring for 2014 has come and gone with much snow still on the ground, the Thunder Bay Soil and Crop Improvement Association has been busy planning the Spring Farm Conference set to happen April 2 and 3 at the Kakabeka Legion.

Heads up everyone! We are busy planning the next Spring Farm Conference at the Kakabeka Legion (http://my.tbaytel.net/kakabekalegion/) on April 1-3, 2014. Exhibitors and speakers are being lined up for the farming community to network, learn and have a great time. Updates on speakers and exhibitors coming soon.

Farmers in the Thunder Bay region who are interested in purchasing a Samco Corn Planter (http://www.samco.ie/machine-sales/machine-spec/) need to contact Christina by Deccember 2, 2014. Growers would need to be financially commited as well as a participant in a field trial. Interested participants would need to be signed up on Growing Forward 2 portal and sign on a collaborator on the attached application below the contact form.

We will be hosting a webcast location of this wonderful conference on Wednesday January 8, 2014 from 9AM to 5PM. Please sign up by December 13, 2013 so that we can order books and lunch. Price of the event will be $15.00 with books and $10.00 without. Lunch will be extra. For a more information on the conference, go to http://www.southwestagconference.ca/. We will be showing broadcasts from “Agronomy AG Theatre” and the “Livestock Pavilion”. To sign up for the webcast, please fill out the following form: